DRC: Opposition determined to stop Kabila’s third term
Thousands people gathered in the capital, Kinshasa, on Tuesday to oppose President Joseph Kabila’s unconstitutional third term Kabila, in office since 2001, is constitutionally ineligible […]
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DRC: Glencore starts talks with Gov’t on Katanga mine
Mining and trading company Glencore held talks with Congolese officials in Kinshasa about the company’s plans to suspend operations at one of the country’s biggest […]
Senegal: Plane with 7 people on board disappears
A plane with seven people on board, including one French passenger, has disappeared west of Senegal during a medical evacuation, the Senegalese civil aviation authority […]
“I plead not guilty”, DRC ‘Terminator’ Ntaganda tells ICC judges
Congo militia leader known as “The Terminator” has pleaded “not guilty” on Wednesday to crimes in a campaign of pillage and murder in northeast Congo’s […]
Congo: IMF critics Glencore Unit copper license
Gecamines, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-owned mining company, with a local partner sold a mining concession to Glencore Plc’s Mutanda copper and cobalt venture […]
Equity Bank to open office in DR Congo
Leading kenyan commercial bank, Equity Bank plans to expand to Congo. The Bank’s banking group has announced that it would soon open office in DR […]
IFC and Ecobank to supports SMEs in Africa
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, parent company of the Ecobank Group and a leading pan-African full-service banking group, […]
DRC: $ 52 million from the World Bank to renovate Goma airport
The World Bank has announced on the 13th March, in a statement, that the institution has granted to the Democratic Republic of Congo an amount […]
DR Congo: Army takes over main FDLR base
The Congolese army announced it had taken over a main rebel base located inside the Virunga National Park in the eastern part of the country, […]
Congo: MONUSCO bombards FNL to reach FDLR
Forces from the United Nations in Congo and Congolese troops have launched a joint offensive on the National Liberation Forces (FNL) ahead of planed attacks […]